Right now I’m reading Get In The Game by Cal Ripken Jr. and I’m loving it so far because I get to read stories about what he went through and what he had to do to get to the level he eventually acheived and continues to acheive. I love finding out what successful people are actually doing in their everyday life. What makes them so successful or fit.

I get emails or have people come up to me sometimes asking what I actually do as far as a program.

I coach high school varsity baseball here in Winchester and about 4 weeks ago things to busy. Tryouts, practices, decisions, more practices, scrimmages and finally the games came. Because I love baseball so much, I get really involved in it and helping the kids learn.

I actually miss my playing days so much (I used to play at Parkland College, which is a Junior College, and University of Northern Iowa, with is Division 1 NCAA) that I’m actually training right now to get back into pro baseball.

There’s me ‘back in the day’ playing college ball

But anyways, as the past few weeks have gone on and how baseball is starting to take up a lot of my time, I started noticing my workouts were slipping and my nutrition has been doing the same. If you’ve ever been around a baseball field for any lengths of time you know that the nutritional choices aren’t exactly the best….especially on the road when choices are really limited. That’s one reasons I carry some Cravers with me and some fruit.

I also noticed last week that my stomach was a little ’soft’.

So this week I did 2 workouts in the gym for a total of 50 minutes (both workouts COMBINED) and I did 2 sprint sessions. I did 4 60 yard sprints last Saturday and 3 30 yard sprints and 4 60 yard sprints this afternoon. I also did some agility work today as well.

And there’s nothing magic about 60 yards, if you’re wondering. It’s just the length of the speed test in baseball (why…I have no idea).

My last workout looked like this:

Kettlebell Swings x15
Kettlebell Front Squat x6
Kettlebell Swings x15
Kettlebell See Saws x10 ea. arm

As many rounds as possible in 10 minutes

1-leg squats x 8 ea. leg (standing on a box)
Pullups x MAX
Mountain Climbers x 25 ea. leg
Squat Jumps x 10
Power Pushups x 10

As many rounds as possible in 10 minutes

So my workout took 20 minutes and my metabolism was cranking afterwards.

So that’s a mini look into my world and I’ll be telling you a lot more about it on this blog.

Do you have a workout that you do when you’re short on time?

If you do, feel free to share it with everybody.

Happy Easter!

Dan Grant